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Comment on Wednesday SOTD Thread - December 18th, 2024 (#556)

PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Octidi 28 Frimaire an 233 de la Révolution, jour de Truffe

Preshave: Proraso Green Preshave
Brush: Semogue C3 Galahad Horse 🐎
Razor: GEM MMOC
Blade: Personna GEM PTFE (16)
Lather: House of Mammoth You and I (Will Die)
Postshave: Naissance 702 Witch Hazel
Postshave: Chiseled Face Midnight Stag Aftershave
Postshave: Nivea After Shave Balm

It is Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club again! I was very excited about this one, because I had never before used a House of Mammoth soap. The smell I could identify was essentially leather and smoke, but the whole thing being rounder than in Oro Valley.

What they say about it:

The perfume accomplishes an extraordinary balancing act between dark and light, opening with airy vegetation and water and gradually descending into dark earth before, impossibly, becoming light, fragile, and delicate. The timeline of the wear is like a pulse, a heartbeat, a vibration, a life.

Yeah. It reminded me of Fumoir des Anges by Annette Neuffer, but less brutal with the smoke.

I thought since they are heavy on smoke, the Stag would complement it well – but I don’t know: the Stag is for me distinctly blue-collar, maybe proletarian, and this one clearly isn’t. Maybe I did get the light, fragile and delicate part of the scent. And who would have thought, it is very fitting for the day, since it contains truffle notes, and today is the day of the truffle in the French calendar!

This is a scent that did not immediately vibe with me, but I believe that there are very good chances that it would grow on me if I bought the full tub 🤔

Thanks to @walden@sub.wetshaving.social for this smush!

~Shared via emacs & sotd.el~

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djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m surprised by how differently I perceived this scent. I got none of the smoke and leather.

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- PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  I got none of the smoke and leather.
  
  must have been confiscated by Swiss customs
  
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  - DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The Germans seemingly confiscated it too, no smoke at all for me and perhaps just a faint touch of old leather (could’ve been the vetiver though). 🤔
    
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- DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Me neither, zero smoky notes - and I actually hoped for those…
  
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  - djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    and I actually hoped for those…
    
    Same!
    
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snooting@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
What did you think of the HoM base?

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- PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It was not the supercreamy lather I got from Old Strathcona, but it was good, not outstanding. But I don’t hahe it dialed in, and with all the hype surrounding HoM, it’s difficult to see how I could not have been a bit disappointed if I didn’t find it the best thing since the invention of fire 🤷
  
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  - walden@sub.wetshaving.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’ve heard people say it’s the type of soap that you don’t need to load very heavy, but I find the opposite to be true. The more the better. It’s hard to gauge if smushes are going to be enough soap – hopefully nobody suffered from having to under-load.
    
    In general Tusk is so-so for me. It’s easy to accidentally over hydrate in my experience, and you won’t know it has too much water based on how it looks, only by the lack of slickness.
    
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